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- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
the part of investors' home countries, host countries, and investors themselves. Business managers must take a significant role in pushing for a multilateral agreement on foreign direct investment, or at least become active in promoting...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
to be breadwinners supports spending long hours at the office. Women, in contrast, face career penalties such as loss of promotion for using corporate accommodations that help them balance different roles. Companies hold on to the...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
facilitated research investment in an area of significant social value, patents promoted disclosure. Our findings highlight the importance of complementarities between prize and patent-based incentives in the design of innovation...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
through restrictions on the number of apartments a resident is allowed to purchase and aggressive promotion of affordable housing on the low-end of the market. Zhang Xin wonders what opportunities and threats such market conditions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611080-PDF-ENG Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (A) Heidi K. Gardner and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 411-038 CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design of a new compensation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
adaptive benefits of synchrony, including neural efficiency and the release of a reward signal that promotes future social interaction. In nature, neural synchrony yields behavioral synchrony. Humans use behavioral synchrony to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Education in Brazil, 1889-1930 Authors:Musacchio, Aldo, Andre Martinez-Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract In this paper, we examine the role of trade shocks in promoting the diffusion of elementary education in subnational units in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to solve “wicked problems.” So leaders have to understand how to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Corporate codes of conduct are becoming an increasingly important vehicle for promoting and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
Lal says. “It takes only one bad apple to destroy that trust.” Lesson 6: Keep products simple It’s best to launch mobile money services with a single or limited amount of product offerings that is easy to understand and promoted through a...
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- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
not just the politically connected or the business elite. Necessary steps to ensure this include the promotion of transparency in government affairs through the adoption of high-quality standards for government accounting that will...
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- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
tend to enjoy export success in product segments for which their domestic consumers favor high levels of quality. French wines succeed internationally because they enjoy domestic market regulations that promote demand for quality...
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- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
the individual but eventually brought ruin to all. The culture of Silicon Valley turns that system on its head. The bank of expertise in Silicon Valley represents a triumph of the commons: resources are extracted and replenished in a self-regulating and efficient...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do October 2014 Handbook of Conflict Management Research Reframing Hierarchical Interactions as Negotiations to Promote Change in Health Care Systems By: Satterstrom,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
old: The former deals with challenges facing marketers promoting "social" goods rather than "private" goods. The organization itself can be a for-profit or a nonprofit (the course has half of each); that doesn't...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
industry norms and culture. For instance, entrepreneurs often promote flat, non-hierarchical structures in the firms they start. However, if customers are used to dealing with titular "Vice Presidents" in other firms, they may...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Industrial Revolution witnessed the founding of many elite business schools in the United States, beginning with the Wharton School in 1881. Harvard Business School, founded in 1908, was one of the first to promote the idea that managers...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
or "shepherds," rather than micro-managers of the creative process. How the market interacts with creativity and the impact of this interaction on creativity in organizations. The relationship between creativity and accountability. The importance of learning...
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by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
organizations? Upton: Popular strategies fall short partly because they are fads that happen to work well in one company but do not transfer well into others, or because they are misunderstood, misapplied, or not well-implemented. Rather than View Details
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by Staff
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
national interest. We suggest revised institutional arrangements to promote greater cooperation between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve in setting debt management policy. This is particularly important when conventional monetary...
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Sean Silverthorne